He, sole in power, at the beginning said, 2. Religious ceremony. Let sea, and air, and earth, and heav'n, be made; 3. Awful ceremony or procession. And it was so: and, when he shall ordain The lady Constance, In other sort, has but to speak again, Some speedy messenger bid repair Prior. Sbakspeara 2. [In law.) Not married. The moon, like to a silver bow Some others are such as a man cannot make New bent in heaven, shall behold the night his wife, though he himself be sole and unmar- Of our solemnities. Sbakspeare. ried. Ayliffe. There may be greater danger in using such So'LECISM. n. s. [Cono.xlouds.] Unfitness compositions in churches, at arraignments, plays, of one word to another; impropriety in and solemnities. Bacon. language. A barbarism may be in one What fun'ral pomp shall floating Tiber see, word, a solecism must be of more. When rising from his bed he views the sad soThere is scarce a solecism in writing which lemnity? Dryden, the best author is not guilty of, if we be at Though the forms and solemnities of the last judgment may bear some resemblance to those liberty to read him in the words of some manu we are acquainted with here, yet the rule of script. Addison. proceeding shall be very different. Atterbury, SO'LELY. adv. [from sole. ] Singly; only. 4. Manner of acting awfully serious. You knew my father well, and in him me, With much more skilful cruelty, and horrible Left solely heir to all his lands. Sbakspeare. solemnity, he caused each thing to be prepared This night's great business for his triumph of tyranny. Sidney. Shall to all our nights and days to come Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom. Sbak. 5. Gravity ; steady seriousness. That the intemperate heat of the clime solely The stateliness and gravity of the Spaniards shews itself in the solemnity of their language. occasions this complexion, experience admits not. Brown. Spectator. This truth is pointed chiefly, if not solely, up 6. Awful grandeur; grave stateliness ; 80on sinners of the first rate, who have cast off all ber dignity: vegard for piety. Atterbury. A diligent decency was in Polycletus, above They all chose rather to rest the cause solily others; to whom though the highest praise be en logical disputation, than upon the testimonies attributed by the mos:, yet some think he of the ancients. Waterland. wanted solemness. Wotton. SOʻLEMN. adj. [solemnel, French; solem- 7. Affected gravity. nis, Latin.] Pr’ythee, Virgilia, turn thy solemness out 'o' door, 1. Anniversary; observed once a year with And go along with us. Sbakspeare religious ceremonies. Be this truth eternal ne'er forgot, The worship of this image was advanced, and Solemnity's a cover for a sot. Young. a solema supplication observed every year. This speech ended with a solemnity of accent. Stilling flert. Female Quixotta f. Religiously grave; awful. SOLEMNIZA’TION. n. s. [from solem nize.) His holy rites and solemn feasts profan'd. Milt. The act of solemnizing ; celebration. 3. Formal ; ritual ; religiously regular. Soon followed the solemnization of the marThe necessary business of a man's calling, riage between Charles and Anne dutchess of with some, will not afford much time for set and Bretagne, with whom he received the dutchy solemn prayer. Duty of Man. Bacun. 4. Striking with seriousness; sober; seri. To So'LEMNIZE v.a. [solemniser, French; ous. from solemn.] Then 'gan he loudly through the house to call, 1. To dignify by particular formalities; to But no one care to answer to his cry; There reign'd a solemn silence over all. F.Queer. celebrate. To 'swage with solemn touches troubled Dorilaus in a great battle was deprived of life; thoughts. Milien, his obsequies being no more sotimnized by the Nor then the solemn nightingale ceas'd warb tears of his partakers than the blood of his eneling Milton. Sidney 3. Grave ; affectedly serious. Baptism to be administered in one place, and Hooker. When Steele reflects upon the many solemn marriage solemnized in another. Then 'gan they sprinkle all the parts with strong barriers to our succession of laws and wine, oaths, he thinks all fear vanishetii: so do I, pro And made great feast to solemnize that day. vided the epithet solemn goes for nothing; be Fairy Queen, cause, though I have heard of a solemn day, and The multitude of the celestial host were heard a solemn coxcomb, yet I can conceive no idea of to solemnize his miraculous birth. Boyle. a solemn barrier. Swift. Their choice nobility and flower ŞO'LEMNESS. n. s. [solemnité, Fr. from Met from all parts to solemnize this feast. Milt, SOLEMNITY.S solemn.] 2. To perform religiously once a year. !. Ceremony or rite annually performed. What commandment the Jews had to celebrate Were these annual solemnities only practised in their feast of dedication, is never spoken of in the church? Nelson. the law, yet solemnized even by our Saviour himThough the days of solemnity, which are but seif. Hooker. few, must quickly finish that outward exercise So'LEMNLY. adv. [from solemn.] of devotion which appertains to such times; yet they increase men's inward dispositions to viriue 1. With annual religious ceremonies. for the present, and, by their frequent returns, 2. With formal gravity and stateliness; bring the same at length to perfection. Nelson. with affected gravity. Great was the cause; our old solemnities There are, in points of wisdom and sufficiency, From no blind zeal or fond tradition rise ; that do nothing or little very solemniy. Bacon. But, sav'd from death, our Argives yearly pay The ministers of state, who gave us law, These grateful honours to the god of day. Pope. In corners, with selected friends, withdrawi There in deaf murmurs solemniy are wise, their continual use for the king's service requires Whisp'ring like winds ere hurricanes arise. men every way fit. Bacon. Dryden. SOLICITOUS. adj. solicitus, Latin.] 3. With formal state. Anxious; careful ; concerned. It has Let him land, commonly about before that which And solemnly see him set on to London. Shaks, causes anxiety; sometimes for or of. 4. With religious seriousness. To demonstrate how much men are blinded For is proper before something to be obtained. by their own partiality, ! do solemnly assure the reader, that he is the only person from whom I Our hearts are pure, when we are not solicitous ever heard that objection. Swift. of the opinion and censures of men, but only that we do our duty. Taylor. TO SOLICIT. v. a. (solicito, Latin.] Enjoy the present, whatsoever it be, and be I. To importune; to entreat. not solicitous for the future. Taylor. If you bethink yourself of any crime, The colonel had been intent upon other Unreconcil'd as yet to heav'n and grace, things, and not enough solicitous to finish the Solicit for it straight. Sbakspeare. fortifications. Clarendou. We heartily solicit In providing money for disbanding the armies, Your gracious self to take on you the charge upon which they were marvellously solicitous, And kingly government of this your land. Sbak, there arose a question. Clarendon. How he sclicits heav'n They who were in truth zealous for the preHimself best knows; but strangely visited people, servation of the laws, were solicitous to preserve The mere despair of surgery, he cures. Sbaksp. the king's honour from any indignity, and his Did I request thee, Maker! from my clay regal power from violation. Clarendon. To mold me man? Did I solicit thee Laud attended on his majesty, which he would From darkness to promote me? Milton. have been excused from, if that design had not The guardian of my faith so false did prove, been in view, to accomplish which he was solja As to solicit me with lawless love. Drydena citous for his advice. Clarendon, 2. To call to action ; to summon; to There kept their watch the legions, while the awake ; to excite. grand This supernatural soliciting, In council sat, solicitous what chance Cannot be ill, cannot be good. Sbakspeare. Might intercept their emperour sent. Milton. Solicit Henry with her wond'rous praise ; Without sign of boast, or sign of joy, Bethink thee on her virtues that surmount Solicitous and blank, he thus began. Milton. Her nat'ral graces, that extinguish art. Sbaksp. No man is solicitous about the event of that That fruit solicited her longing eye. Milton. which he has in his power to dispose of. Soutb. Sounds and some tangible qualities solicit their You have not only been careful of my fortune, proper senses, and force asi entrance to the the effect of your nobleness; but you have been mind. Locke. solicitous of my reputation, which is that of your He is solicited by popular custom to indulge kindness. Drydenta himself in forbidden liberties. Rogers. The tender dame, solicitous to know Whether her child should reach old age or no, 3. To implore ; to ask. With that she wept again; till he again so Consults the sage Tiresias. Addison, liciting the conclusion of her story, Then must How lawful and praiseworthy is the care of a you, said she, know the story of Amphialus? family! And yet how certainly are many people Sidney. rendered incapable of all virtue, by a worldly solicitous temper! Law, To attempt; to try to obtain. I view my crime, but kindle at the view; SolI'CITOUSLY. adv. [from solicitous. ] Milton. Boyle. I find your love, and would reward it too; He would surely have as solicitously promoted But anxious fears solicit my weak breast. Dryd. their learning, as ever he obstructed it. SOLICITA'TION. n. s. [from solicit. ] Decay of Piety. 1. Importunity; act of importuning. SOLICITUDE. n. s. (solicitudo, Latin.] I can produce a man Anxiety; carefulness. Of female secd, far abler to resist In this, by comparison, we behold the many All his solicitations, and at length cares and great labours of worldly men, their All his vast force, and drive him back to hell. silicitude and outward shews, and publick ostenMilton. tion, their pride, and vanities. Raleigh. 2. Invitation ; excitement. If they would but provide for eternity with Children are surrounded with new things, the same solicitude, and real care, as they do for which, by a constant solicitation of their senses, this life, they could not fail of heaven. Tillotson. draw the mind constantly to them. Luch They are to be known by a wonderful solici. SOLICITOR. N. s. [from solicit.] tude for the reputation of their friends. Tatler. 1. One who petitions for another. Soli'citress. n. s. [feminine of solicitor.) Be merry, Cassio; A woman who petitions for another. For thy solicitor shall rather die I had the most earnest solicitress, as well as Than give thy cause away. Sbakspeare. the fairest; and nothing could be refused to my Honest minds will consider poverty as a re lady Hyde. Dryden. commendation in the person who applies himself to them, and make the justice of his cause SO'LID. adj. [solidus, Lat. solide, Fr.] the most powerful solicitor in his behalf . Addison. 1. Not liquid , not fluid. 2. One who does in Chancery the business Land that ever burn'd which is done by attorneys in other With solid, as the lake with liquid fire. Miltex. 2. Not hollow; full of matter; compact; courts. dense. For the king's attorney and solicitor general, a : Thin airy things extend themselves in place, petuity, and to contest with the iron teeth of Things solid take up litile space. Cowley. time. Howel. I hear his thund'ring voice resound, SOLIDU'NGULOUS. adj. [solidus and unAnd trampling feet that shake the solid ground. gula, Lat.] Whole-hoofed. Dryden. It is set down by Aristotle and Pliny, that ar 3. Having all the geometrical dimensions. horse, and all solidungulous or whole-hoofed aniIn a solid foot are 1729 solid inches, weighing mals, have no gall; which we find repugnant 76 pound of rain water. Arbuthnot. Brown. 4. Strong ; firm. SOLIFI'DIAN. n. S. [solus and fides, Lat.) The duke's new palace is a noble pile, built after this manner, which makes it look very One who supposes only faith, not solid and majestick. Addison. works, necessary to justification. 3. Sound ; not weakly. It may be justly feared, that the title of fundaIf persons devote themselves to science, they mentals, being ordinarily confined to the docshould be well assured of a solid and strong con trines of faith, hath occasioned that great scandal stication of body, to bear the fatigue. Watts. in the church of God, at which so many myriads 6. Real; not empty ; true ; not falla of solifidians have stumbled, and fallen irreversicious. bly, by conceiving heaven a reward of true opinions. Hammond. This might satisfy sober and wise men, not with soft and specious words, but with pregnant SOLI'LOQUY. n. s. (soliloque, Fr. solus and and solid reasons. King Charles. loquor, Lat.] A discourse made by one Either not define at all, or seek out other in solitude to himself. solider methods, and more catholick grounds of The whole poem is a soliloquy : Solomon is defining. Hammond, the person that speaks: he is at once the hero The earth may of solid good contain and the author; but he tells us very often what More plenty than the sun. Milton. Prior. -7. Not light; not superficial ; grave ; He finds no respite from his anxious grief, profound. Then seeks from his soliloquy relief. Gartb. If I should own myself in love, you know These, wanting wit, affect gravity, and go by the name of solid men; and a solid man is, in lovers are always allowed the comfort of seliloplain English, a solid solemn fool. Dryder. Spectator. SO'LID, 7. s. [In physick.] The part conns So'LIPEDE. n. s. [solus and pedes, Latin.] taining the Auids. An animal whose feet are not cloven. The first and most simple solids of our body Solipedes, or firm footed animals, as horses, are perhaps merely rerrestrial, and incapable of asses, and mules, are in mighty number. Brown. any change or disease. Arbuthnot. SOLITA'IR E. n. s. [solitaire, Fr.) Often have I been going to take possession of 1. Fulness of matter; not hollowness. tranquillity, when your conversation has spoiled 2. Firmness; hardness; compactness; den me for a solitaire. Popes sity; not fluidity. 2. An ornament for the neck. That which hinders the approach of two bo- SO'LITARILY. adv. [from solitary.] In dies, when they are moving one towards another, solitude; with loneliness; without comI call solidity. Locke, pany. The stone itself, whether naked or invested How should that subsist solitarily by itself with earth, is not by its solidity secured, but which hath no substance, but individually the washed down. Woodavard. very same whereby others subsist with it? 3. Truth ; not fallaciousness; intellectual Hooker. strength ; certainty. Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of The most known rules are placed in so beau- thine heritage which dwell solitarily in the wood. tiful a light, that they have all the graces of no Micah. velty; and make the reader, who was before ac- SO'LITARINESS. n. s. [from solitary. ) So. quainted with them, still more convinced of their litude ; forbearance of company ; hatruth and solidity. Allison. bitual retirement. His fellow-peers have attended' to his elo There is no cause to blame the prince for quence, and have been convinced by the solidity at his reasoning. sometimes hearing them: the blame-worthiness Prior. is, that to hear them he rather goes to solitari. This pretence has a great deal more of art ness than makes them come to company. Sidney. than of solidity in it. Waterland, SO'LIDLY. adv. [from solid.] You subjcct yourself to solitariness, the sly enemy that doth most separate a man from well1. Firmly ; densely ; compactly. doing. Sidney. 2. Truly ; on good grounds. At home, in wholesome solitariness, A complete brave man ought to know solidly My piteous soul began the wretchedness the main end he is in the world for. Digby. Of suitors at the court to mourn, Donne. I look upon this as a sufficient ground for any SOʻLITARY. adj. (solitaire, Fr. solitarius, rational man to take up his religion upon, and which I defy the subtlest atheist in the world Latin.] solidly to answer; namely, that it is good to be 1. Living alone; not having company. sure. South. Those rare and solitary, these in focks. SO'LIDNESS. n. s. [from solid.] Solidity; Milton. firmness; density. 2. Retired; remote from compasy; done It beareth misselioe : the cause may be the or passed without company; closeness and solidness of the wood and pith of In respect that it is solitary, I like it very the cak. Bacon, well; but in respect that it is private, it is a very It is built with that unusual solidness, that it vile life. Shakspeare. scems be intended to make a sacrifice to per. Satan explores his solitary flight. Milton Popeo Him fair Lavinia this observation alone, are exempted a hundred Shall breed in groves to lead a solitary life. days. Bronina Dryden. 2. Happening at the solstice, or at mid. 3. Gloomy; dismal. summer. Let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice From the north to call come therein. Job. Decrepit winter; from the south to bring 4. Single. Solstitial summer's heat. Måton. Nor did a solitary vengeance serve : the cut The fields ting off one head is not enough ; the eldest son Labour'd with thirst; Aquarius had not shed must be involved. King Cbarles. His wonted showers, and Sirius parch'd with Relations alternately relieve each other, their heat mutual concurrences supporting their solitary in- Solstitial the green herbs. Pbilips. stabilities. Brown. So'LUBLE. adj. (solubilis, Lat.] SOʻLITARY. n. s. [from the adjective.] 1. Capable of dissolution or separation of One that lives alone; a hermit. parts. You describe so well your hermitical state of Sugar is a sal oleosum, being soluble in water, life, that none of the ancient anchorites could and fusible in fire. Arbutbret. go beyond you, for a cave with a spring, or any 2. Producing laxity; relaxing; of the accommodations that befit a solitary. SOLUBI’LITY. n. s. [from soluble.] Sus. ceptiveness of separation of parts. SO'LITUDE. 1. s. [solitude, Fr. solitudo, This cannct account for the indissolvable coLatin.] herence of some bodies, and the fragility and 1. Lonely life; state of being alone. solubility of others. Glanville. It had been hard to have put more truth and To SOLVE. v. a. (solvo, Lat.) To clear ; untruth together, in few ds, than in that speech, Whosoever is delighted with solitude, is to explain ; to untie an intellectual either a wild beast or a god. Bacon. knot. What call'st thou solitude? Is not the earth He would solve high dispute With various living creatures, and the air, With conjugal caresses. Milton. Replenish'd, and all these at thy command, The limiting of the regale only to christian To come and play before thee? Milton. princes, did rather involve and perplex the cause, Such only can enjoy the country, who are ca- than any way solve it. Lesley. pable of thinking, when they are there: then Do thou, iny soul, the destin'd period wait, they are prepared for solitude, and in that soli- When God shall solve the dark decrees of fata; tude is prepared for them. Dryden. His now unequal dispensations clear, 2. Loneliness ; remoteness from company. And make all wise and beautiful appear. Tickel. The solitude of his little parish is become mat It is mere trifling to raise objections, merely ter of great comfort to him, because he hopes for the sake of answering and solving them. that God has placed him and his flock there, to Watts, make it their way to heaven. Law. SO'LVENCY.'n. s. [from solvent.] Ability 3. A lonely place; a desert. In these deep solitudes, and awful cells, SO’LVENT. adj. (solvens, Lat.] Where heavenly-pensive contemplation dwells. 1. Having the power to cause dissolution. Pope. When dissolved in water, it is not by the eye SO'LLAR. 4. s. [solarium, low Lat.] 'A distinguishable from the solvent body, and apgarret. Boybe. Some skilfully drieth their hops on a kel, 2. Able to pay debts contracted. And some on a sollar, oft turning them wel. SO'LVIBLE. adj. (from solve.] Possible to Tusser. be cleared by reason or inquiry. SOʻLO. n. s. [Italian.] A tune played by Intellective memory I call an act of the intele a single instrument. lective faculty, because it is wrought by it, though SO'LOMON's Loaf. n. s. A plant. I do not inquire how or where, because it is not SOʻLOMON's Seal. n. s. (polygonatum, Lat.] solvible. Hale. A plant. SO'LUND-GOOSE, n. s. A fowl. I know SOʻLSTICE. n. s. [solstice, Fr. solstitium, not whether solund or soland. Latin.] A solund-goose is in bigness and feather very like a tame goose, but his bill longer, and someI. The point beyond which the sun does what pointed; his wings also much longer, being not go; the tropical point; the point at two yards over. Grew. which the day is longest in summer, or A'Scot, when from the gallow-tree let loose, shortest in winter. Drops into Styx, and turns a soland-goose. 2. It is taken of itself commonly for the Cleaveland. SOLU'TION. n. s. [solution, Fr. solutio, summer solstice. The sun, ascending unto the northern signs, Latin.] begetteth first a temperate heat in the air, which 1. Disruption ; breach ; disjunction ; seby his approach unto the solstice he intendeth, paration. and by continuation increaseth the same even In all bodies there is an appetite of union, and Brown. evitation of solution of continuity.. Bacon. Let the plowmen's prayer 2. Matter aissolved ; that which contains Be for moist solstices, and winters fair. May. SOLSTI'ITAL, adj. [solsticial, Fr. frum any thing dissolved. Aretæus, to procure sleep, recommends a sosolstice.) lution of opium in water to foment the forehead. I. Belonging to the solstice. Arbutbrot. Observing the dog-days ten days before and When salt of tartar per deliquium, poured inafter che equinoctial and solstitial points, by to the solution of any metal, precipicates the to pay: pears as fiuid. upon declination, metal, and makes it fall down to the bottom of at Sluice some good while, returned unto the the liquor in the form of mud, does not this king, then before Buloigne. Bacon, argue that the acid particles are attracted more The number slain on the rebels part were strongly by the salt of tartar than by the metal, some two thousand. Bacori. and by the stronger attraction go from the metal They have no black men amongst them, exto the salt of tartar ? Noroton. cept some few which dwell on the seacoast. Heylin. 3. Resolution of a doubt ; removal of an intellectual difficulty. He bore away the prize, to the aditiration of some hundreds. Addison Something yet of doubt remains, Which only thy solution can resolve. Milton. Your good-natur'd gods, they say, Descend some twice or thrice a day. Prior. They give the reins to wand'ring thoughts, Paint, patches, jewels laid aside, Till , by their own perplexities involv’d, At night astronomiers agree, They ravel more, still less resolv'd, The evening has the day bely'd, But never find self-satisfying solution. Milton. And Phyllis is some forty-three. Prior. With hope and fear The woman did the new solution hear; 6. One; any, without determining which. The man diffides in his own augury, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff. And doubts. Dryden. Milton, This will instruct you to give a plainer solution SO'MEBODY. n. s. [some and body.] of any difficulties that may attend the theme, 1. One ; not nobody ; a person indiscri. and refute objections. Watts. minate and undetermined. SOʻLUTIVE. e. adj. [from solvo, Lat.] Lax- O that sir Jolin were come, he would make ative ; causing relaxation, this a bloody day to somebody. Shakspeare, Though it would not be so abstersive, open- Jesus said, somebody hath touched me; for I ing, and solutive as mcad, yet it will be more perceive that virtue is gone out of me. Luke. lenitive in sharp diseases. Bacon. If there be a tacit league, it is against someSOMATO'LOGY. n. s. [owder and aéyw.] The what or somebody : who should they be? Is it doctrine of bodies. against wild beasts? No; it is against such routs and shoals of people as have utterly degenerated SOME. A termination of many adjectives, from the laws of nature. Bacoma which denote quality or property of If he had not done it when he did, some boching any thing. It is generally joined with else might have done it for him. Heylin. a substantive : as gamesome. (saam, We must draw in somebody, that may stand 'Twixt us and danger. Denbur. Dutch.) The hopes that what he has must come to SOME. adj. [rom, sum, Saxon; sıms, somebody, and that he has no heirs, have that Gothick ; sum, German; som, Danish; effect, that he has every day three or four insom, sommig, Dutch.] vitations. Addisor. 1. More or less, noting an indeterminate 2. A person of consideration. quantity. Theudas rose up, boasting himself to be som Welanded some hundred men, where we found body. Acte same fresh water. Raleigh. So'niE DEAL. adv. (rumdeal, Saxon.] la 2. More or fewer, noting an indeterminate some degree. Obsolete. number. Siker now I know thou speak’st of spite, Let me leave some of the folk that are with All for thou lackest somedele their delighe. Genesis. Spenser. First go with me, some few of you, and see SO'MEHOW. adv. (some and how.] One the place, and how it may be made convenient way or other; I know not how. for you; and then send for your sick. Bacon. The vesicular cells may be for receiving the 3. Certain persons. Some is often used ab- arterial and nervous juices, that, by their acsolutely for some people ; part. tion upon one another, they may be swelled Some to the shores do fly, somehow, so as to shorten the length of every Some to the woods, or whither fear advis'd; fibril. Chene. But running from, all to destruction hye. Daniel. SO'MERSAULT.] n. s. [Somerset is the Not in the neighbouring moon, as some have SO'MERSET. corruption; sommer, a dream'd. Milion. beam, and sault, Fr. a leap. ) A leap by Your edicts some reclaim from sins, But most your life and blest example wins. which a jumper throws himself from a Dryden. height, and turns over his head. 4. Some is opposed to some, or to others. SO'METHING. n. s. (rum ding, Sax.] It may be that the queen's treasure, in so 1. A thing existing, though it appears not great occasions of disbursements, is not always what ; ; a thing or matter indetcrminate. so ready; but being paid as it is, now some, and When fierce Bavar then some, it is no great impoverishment to her Did from afar the British chief behold, coffers. Spenser. Betwixt despair and rage, and hope and pain, 8. It is added to a number, to show that Something within his warring bosom rolla. the number is uncertain and conjectural. Prior. Being encountered with a strong storm some The force of the air upon the pulmonary arçight leagues to the westward of Scilly, I held tery is but small, in respect of that of the heart; in the office of a commander to take a port. but it is still something: Arbuthnici. Raleigh. You'll say the whole world has something to At the higher end of a creek Milbrook lurk- do, somet'ing to talk of, something to wish for, eth between two hills, a village of some eighty and something to be employed about; but pray houses. Carew. put all these somethings together, and what is the Old men's spirits visual, contrary to those of sum total but just nothing? Pope, purblind men, unite not but when the object is Here she beholds the chaos dark and deep, et some good distance. Bacon. Where nameless somethings in their causes sleep. Sir Edward Poinings, after he had continued Poge. me. |